--- title: Honesty means telling the truth and not deceiving; a white lie, like… — Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness · tree and pragmatics description: Honesty means telling the truth and not deceiving; a white lie, like saying you love a present you dislike, is told to be kind, and people disagree about such lies, but there is often a kind way to be honest: "Thank you, it was so thoughtful of you." Who acts: Honesty, white lie, you, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Honesty, white lie, you, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.lesson:1 # text = Honesty means telling the truth and not deceiving; a white lie, like saying you love a present you dislike, is told to be kind, and people disagree about such lies, but there is often a kind way to be honest: "Thank you, it was so thoughtful of you." # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Honesty honesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 deceiving deceive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 conj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 14 like like SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 acl _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 dislike dislike VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 25 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 27 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 32 about about ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 38 expl _ _ 38 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:conj|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 often often ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 44 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 cop _ _ 45 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 acl:relcl _ _ 46 : : PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 47 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 48 Thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 parataxis _ _ 49 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 52 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ _ 53 so so ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 54 thoughtful thoughtful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 parataxis _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 54 obl _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 54 punct _ _ 58 " " PUNCT '' _ 54 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: thank - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=thank | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Honesty | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | gerund | Honesty *not said here* | the truth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **deceive** | gerund | Honesty *not said here* | | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a white lie *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **love** | present | you | a present | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer present=Stimulus | | 6 | **dislike** | present | you | a present *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer present=Stimulus | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | a white lie | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 8 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a white lie *not said here* | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **disagree** | present | people | | | | | about such lies | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about lie=Topic | | 10 | **be** | present | a kind way | | | there | | often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **is** | to-infinitive | a kind way *not said here* | | | | | honest *property* | tree rules | | 12 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 13 | **is** *in a quote* | past | honesty | | | | | of you; thoughtful *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.lesson:1`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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